I recently installed Podget; it's a great little command line podcast downloading tool, but the documentation is a bit spotty. I searched online, and most people seem to like it, blog about it, but also refuse to discuss exactly how to write the podgetrc file so things work properly. That, sir, is why you are here:

1. sudo apt-get install podget
2. mkdir ~/.podget
3. touch ~/.podget/podgetrc
4. touch ~/.podget/serverlist

What you see below are my podgetrc and serverlist files which can be used as an example.

podgetrc:


serverlist:


If you are missing any of the configuration parameters in your podgetrc, podget will complain. The pathnames must be absolute (eg use /home/minhuang and not ~), or else podget will create a ~ directory in the current working directory. Don't type rm -rf ~ if that happens!

References:
http://www.linux.com/feature/114096
http://www.linux.com/articles/60857